Crowstep
29d ago
My wife is a very persistent backseat driver, despite not actually knowing how to drive. She also does that thing where she gets scared that I won't break in time. In her defence, she does realise that it's annoying and is trying to stop.
This article has 80% of women admitting to it, versus 62% of men. Both numbers seem a little too high to me, but they do show the gender difference.
My guess would be the gender gap is a manifestation of anxiety or neuroticism. If being a passenger feels more dangerous to women, then them wanting to reduce risk by controlling the situation themselves would make sense. Although as you say, I can't imagine many women wanting to do more of the driving. Maybe sitting as a passenger and giving instructions feels safer than simply driving oneself?
Evolution doesn't care if alleles are 'beneficial' for any of the purposes that we care about (peace, prosperity, happiness etc), just that they increase reproductive fitness. If low-IQ psychopaths have higher reproductive fitness than others, then alleles for low-IQ psychopathy will increase.
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